Author Archives: DavidM

Local Listings for Businesses with Multiple Locations

Creating online local listings get even more complicated if you own a chain store or a business with multiple locations. Not only is there the process of uploading the info for each location but Google will sometimes want to merge…

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How to Deal With Negative Reviews

It doesn’t matter how good the customer service at your business is, haters gotta hate. Its a fact of life. Online review sites like Google Places and Yelp seem to be a great outlet for those haters so its almost…

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YouTube Optimization Tips

When we talk about SEO we like to look at the top three search engines: Google, Yahoo, and Bing. But by focusing on search engines only we might be missing something big. YouTube gets more visits everyday than both Yahoo…

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What types of internet marketing should I invest in?

Congrats! Making the move to internet marketing is a smart decision as I’m sure you’ve been told a million times. A lot of advertising money is moving to the internet because that is where all the consumers are these days….

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Google Chromebook and the Future of the Internet

Google has announced the Chromebook and made a move into a new market by deciding to launch a physical product. If you don’t know what Chromebook is already, imagine a laptop that can’t do anything but get on the internet….

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What are the Biggest Local Search Ranking Factors?

Unlike Google’s organic search algorithm which SEO engineers tend to crack every time a change is made, Google’s local search ranking factors seem to be much more of a mystery. No matter how much a self-proclaimed local search expert preaches…

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Google Social Search Gets a +1 Button

Google seems to have taken a page out of the Facebook book with its latest development. Its called the +1 button. We’ve all used the “Like” button on Facebook whether you want to admit it or not. It has some…

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Bing Now a Default Search Option on Firefox

Google and Firefox have worked together for years to create better search and browser integration and they will continue to do so. But the release of Firefox 4 brings with it an intriguing new development. Bing is now a default…

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Zuckerberg and Hatch talk Government Control of the Internet

Mark Zuckerberg and Orrin Hatch may not have a whole lot in common, but that is exactly what made a visit by both of them to Brigham Young University campus on Friday so interesting. About halfway through the forum, after…

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Some Free Search Engine Rank Checker Tools

Lets face it, its a pain to type your keywords into Google and scroll through pages and pages of results looking for your site to see if your SEO work has paid off or not. There are some really great…

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